Le Tour de Drupal Updates

I got out today for my first ride since the "big" ride into Manchester last week, I did another loop around the local hills over to Oakenclough. It also gave me an opportunity to test out RunKeeper, an iPhone application that enables you to track your route via GPS giving you valuable information such as time, distance, avg. speed and calories burned. One really cool feature is a graph that displays your speed overlaid with the height above sea level which I found really useful.

When I started training for Le Tour de Drupal two weeks ago, James suggested I keep a log of mileage covered and timings, here's some data from that log:

• I've been out on the bike 10 times over a two week period
• I've been in the saddle for a total of 11hrs 28mins
• I've covered a distance of 146.3 miles
• It was raining... not all the time... but generally speaking it was raining...

So based on my training data, if I'd set off for Paris two weeks ago, I'd still have about 30 miles to ride!

It's been another encouraging day in the build up to Le Tour, donations have reached 15% of the target total, yay! This is fantastic news and I want to say a big "thank you" to everyone who has donated so far!

I also received a call from the Meningitis Trust who are going to help publicise the ride and make some press releases to local newspapers which is a huge encouragement. I'd contacted both the Garstang Courier and the Lancashire Evening Post but as yet have not heard back from them, hopefully the good people at the Meningitis Trust will have more joy!

We've had some fantastic activity on Twitter today, thanks everyone who tweeted about Le Tour de Drupal - don't forget the hash tag #tourdedrupal if you want your message to appear in our feed...

Thanks again and keep up the good work of spreading the word, it all helps!